The bestselling classic about a mixed-race child in the Civil War-era South that โchronicles the triumph of a free spirit over many kinds of bondageโ (TheNew York Times Book Review).
ย
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the antebellum South in both its opulence and its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.
ย
Weaving her own familyโs oral history with thirty years of research, Margaret Walker brings the everyday experiences of slaves to light in a novel that churns with the hunger, the hymns, the struggles, and the very breath of American history.
ย
โA revelation.โโMilwaukee Journal
ย
Includes a foreword by Nikki Giovanni